Clinical Trial: A Study of Silent Alarm Delivery Versus Standard Audible Alarm Delivery in Intensive Care and High Dependency Units
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Does Eliminating Alarm Noise Cacophony for Intensive Care Staff and Patients Improve Burnout and Encephalopathy Levels
Brief Summary:
The goal of the trial is to learn if a strategy to eliminate audible alarm noise in intensive care and high dependency units can reduce overall noise levels, patient delirium, staff alarm fatigue, and staff burnout.Researchers will implement a silent alarm strategy in specific care units for four weeks and compare this to a separate 4 weeks where a silent strategy is not implemented.Noise, burnout, delirium levels, and staff alarm response times will be compared between the silent and non-silent units.
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